Wingen, Australia
Burning Mountain
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
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Wingen, Australia
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Treviso, Italy
Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Rocksprings, Texas
This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.
Iceland
This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.
Akureyri, Iceland
Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?
Pembroke, Wales
A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.
Los Lunas, New Mexico
On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.